Most beautiful sport?

[Anonymous]

For me it’s rowing. I love watching the rowers be in sync gliding along the water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me it’s rowing. I love watching the rowers be in sync gliding along the water.

Yawn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For me it’s rowing. I love watching the rowers be in sync gliding along the water.

This, plus running.

There's beauty in watching a runner dig deep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Professional Squash.
Never seen players so athletic, flexible and agile !

Happy to see another Squash fan on this forum!
Seriously, these athletes are insane ... like how is this dive humanly possible? Definitely a very under rated sport.

[Anonymous]

Pickleball

[Anonymous]

High dive for me. I wish I had the change to do it when I was young!

[Anonymous]

Gymnastics (both kinds), synchronized swimming, diving, and I got really into fencing at this past Olympics. Maybe it was the Grand Palais setting, I had no idea how some of the scoring worked but they looked really cool in their suits.

[Anonymous]

Definitely Pickleball

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tennis. Agility plus strength.

+1. I think the setting and visual composition of the court is also extremely pleasing, and the strategic elements add to the beauty because you can watch small stories unfold in the course of a single point, and over the course of a match as players identify and exploit one another's weaknesses.

It is very hard to beat the sight of a final between top players at Wimbledon or Rolland Garros.

I also think football is a beautiful game, and the agility that players display even at their size and playing such a brutal contact sport always amazes me -- speed, precision, the connection between players, the execution of a play with everyone running their designed routes. I will never stop watching football even though it is brutal because it is also so beautiful and exciting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hockey. If you have ever played and can skate well you’ll know why. You feel like you’re flying on ice.

I think there's a difference between a sport that is beautiful to play and one that is beautiful to watch. I've skated, though not played hockey, and I believe it is beautiful to play. I do not think it's beautiful to watch, especially on TV (it is very exciting and fun in person).

Likewise, rowing and kayaking are very beautiful to participate in but I agree with PPs that they are boring to watch. A photo finish in rowing can be exciting but otherwise it's fairly dull.

I think the most beautiful sports are the ones that put the athletic challenge of the support on display in a very clear way (in hockey players are too covered up and so much of what they are doing is obscured from the crowd or TV viewers), involves some degree of strategy, and is very exciting.

Tennis and football are it for me.

[Anonymous]

Equine sports, of course.

It's the ultimate teamwork of a human brain and an animal brain. It's several degree of magnitude harder than human to human communication.

All precision animal sports (falconry and sheep herding come to mind) have that element of very challenging communication, but equine sports take it to a whole other level.

They are all beautiful to watch for me because of that degree of symbiosis.

[Anonymous]

F1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hockey. If you have ever played and can skate well you’ll know why. You feel like you’re flying on ice.

I think there's a difference between a sport that is beautiful to play and one that is beautiful to watch. I've skated, though not played hockey, and I believe it is beautiful to play. I do not think it's beautiful to watch, especially on TV (it is very exciting and fun in person).

Likewise, rowing and kayaking are very beautiful to participate in but I agree with PPs that they are boring to watch. A photo finish in rowing can be exciting but otherwise it's fairly dull.

I think the most beautiful sports are the ones that put the athletic challenge of the support on display in a very clear way (in hockey players are too covered up and so much of what they are doing is obscured from the crowd or TV viewers), involves some degree of strategy, and is very exciting.

Tennis and football are it for me.

Agree with this .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Equine sports, of course.

It's the ultimate teamwork of a human brain and an animal brain. It's several degree of magnitude harder than human to human communication.

All precision animal sports (falconry and sheep herding come to mind) have that element of very challenging communication, but equine sports take it to a whole other level.

They are all beautiful to watch for me because of that degree of symbiosis.

Sure it should be of course

[Anonymous]

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